Es gibt den Mythos, Termine könne man nur verlässlich mit #Outlook managen. Dazu gäbe es keine Alternative, weil es bei anderen immer hakt.

Stimmt das heute noch? Also, gerade, wenn man sich in einer Organisation auf ein Kalender-Tool einigt, müsste das doch problemlos gehen.

#foss #opensource

Durch Good-Cop/Bad-Cop-Taktiken wurden Softwareentwickler dazu gedrängt, subtil versteckte Sicherheitslücken einzubauen. Wie können wir das zukünftig vermeiden?
.
1️⃣ Vereinfachung/Reduzierung von Programmen und Abhängigkeiten
2️⃣ Mehr Wertschätzung und Unterstützung für die Open-Source-Entwickler
3️⃣ Bessere Kontrolle, aber ohne Belastung für die Entwickler
4️⃣ Angewandtere Ausbildung

Was sind eure Ideen dazu? Freue mich auf Feedback!

#xz #lzma #ssh #FOSS #FLOSS #OSS
https://marcel-waldvogel.ch/2024/04/02/wie-die-open-source-community-an-ostern-die-it-welt-rettete/

#GNU Linux-Libre 6.9 Kernel Released for Those Who Seek 100% Freedom for Their PCs https://9to5linux.com/gnu-linux-libre-6-9-kernel-released-for-software-freedom-lovers

#FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux #OpenSource

DOSBox Staging v0.81.1 has been released. Rejoice! 😎 🥳

The main focus of this maintenance release is to fix a couple of regressions introduced in 0.81.0, most of them related to game compatibility, and address a few long-standing issues.

This release was made possible by everyone who tried 0.81.0, submitted bugs and pull requests, and tested the updates. Thank you! 😎

https://dosbox-staging.github.io/releases/release-notes/0.81.1/

#DOSBox-Staging #DOSBox #DOSGaming #MS-DOS #Emulation #RetroGaming #LinuxGaming #MacGaming #FOSS

When I force #AV1 on #Youtube, Firefox doesn't play the video (youtube says it's not supported). And yet, AV1 on Firefox's settings is ON, hardware acceleration in general is ON, and vainfo says that AV1 is supported by my #Intel #A310 card (#i915 driver), and yet youtube doesn't work with #Firefox in conjunction to AV1. VP9/h.264 do work, but I wanted AV1 (h264ify didn't help btw). #Debian Testing here, with Firefox-ESR 115.19.9esr. Any clues?

#linux #opensource #foss #video

common linux-user FUD on FreeBSD forums:

> "modern wifi doesn't work!"
> "it won't run a desktop"

reality: user doesn't want to read docs/man/apropos

here's a Thinkpad X1 Nano:
- KDE Plasma6 on FreeBSD 14.0R-p6
- Intel AX201 wifi (basic wpa-supplicant params)
- external travel monitor: plug-n-play, it just works

time required: 20 minutes of relaxed leisurely morning coffee sipping

#freebsd #KDE #plasma6 #thinkpad #linux #foss #FreeBSD14

I'm hosting a webinar about air-gapped #Nextcloud for organizations with highly confidential data storage and sharing needs.

If that interests you, join me on May 22nd at 9 am EDT / 3 pm CEST to learn about:

🔍 Critical factors to consider
🛡️ Four customizable air-gapped setups
🔧 Setting up air-gapped Nextcloud instances
💼 Best practices for Nextcloud maintenance

Register for free:
https://bit.ly/3QB2dlv

Boosts appreciated 🙏

#OpenSource #infosec #Data #DataProtection #DataSecurity #FOSS

Is this a propaganda article to present closed-source software as more secure or is it to sell IT "security"?

»Open-Source Cybersecurity Is a Ticking Time Bomb:
A vast majority of the world's software runs on open-source code. Can it be secured?«

🔓 https://gizmodo.com/open-source-cybersecurity-is-a-ticking-time-bomb-1848790421

—
#opensource #cybersecurity #security #it #software #xz #foss #floss #itsecurity

@markd @unix_discussions #FreeBSD is doing great wrt #Wayland. There are many contributors working on it. I don't know if there are any major todos left for FreeBSD to implement for proper Wayland experience. The FreeBSD Handbook also has a long chapter about Wayland support:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/

Perhaps it is important to note that FreeBSD does not ship Xorg in its base system, so switching to Wayland is just a matter of installing it instead of X11.

#xorg #x11 #foss #osdev

We need a combination of public and private funding to support the #OpenSource ecosystem. Enter the #FOSS Sustainability Fund: Join me in a conversation with the Open Technology Fund #OTF & @feynudibranch on Tuesday at 3:30 CEST to learn how to apply! https://www.meetup.com/github/events/300811719/

Wine 9.8 released with Mono updates, ARM improvements https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/wine-9-8-released-with-mono-updates-arm-improvements/

#Wine #FOSS #Linux #OpenSource

While I’m fully into #FOSS and #federated services, I can also see the benefits of major and proprietary solutions from a beginners perspective.

I think it is always about the targeted user base and how to make it comfortable to them.

I can also see this with #BoxyBSD, where I’m targeting beginners who cannot afford virtual machines to learn and practice. However, to help them, you need to catch them at their starting point, which is mostly a well known service like Discord, Twitter etc. Beginners are not aware of the Fediverse, Matrix, IRC and all the other solutions. It won’t provide them or the communities to exclude them.

Moving code away from GitHub may reduce the visibility of projects and potential contributions. Moving support to nerd services may exclude them. Forcing them to deal with it, results in dead useraccoujts in long-term.

Teach them at the beginning, show them alternatives and as soon as they do it by their own will, they will switch and contribute.

I really love free and opensource software, projects and services but it does not mean that we should force people to avoid it. We should more be happy about people that decide to publish and contribute their code to the community in any way and also providing any solution to provide feedback, support etc. Decisions to a specific solution like Discord may have several reasons like not being aware of it, not having the time for it, no personal needs to deal with it (if it works, it works). Not everyone is deeply into FOSS or cares about it.

I always contributed heavily into opensource within the last years and was only on Twitter and never saw the needs for Matrix or Fediverse. I simply didn’t had the time nor the fun to deal with it - nowadays I’m running my own instances.

After a stable release of K-9 Mail, our Android team usually spends a couple weeks fixing bugs. The bug hunt takes center stage in this month's #Android progress report, with cketti and Wolf ironing out a BUNCH of them.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-march-2024-progress-report/

#Thunderbird #K9Mail #FOSS

Version 7.4.2024.01.15-p1 of #FreeBSD #relayd has just been released and is available in the FreeBSD Ports tree:

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=a66b8f6102fe56d83583db9f4041f3e7fa6c1ba9

One of the interesting changes is fix for a crash that can be triggered by a config reload. The commit message contains a nice write-up:

https://github.com/KlaraSystems/freebsd-relayd/pull/1/commits/cc381fdfa454a9b24c0a061602f2ef25472d06e2

We are working on getting the fix upstreamed to #OpenBSD. Here's the bug report if you want to take a look:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=171288115606488&w=2

#opensource #osdev #CFT #foss

After more annoyances that Gnome/RedHat is pulling lately ( https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288 ), I just donated to #Linux #Mint, instead of my original intention, #Gnome.

The Gnome Project is a wall-garden, but not of the Apple kind. It's a club of mostly #Redhat programmers & a few select others, and either you're in it, or you're not. Your user needs, your bug reports, your patches, all end up on /dev/null. They listen to no one. Never have, never will.

So, my money went to a fork.

#opensource #foss

@jakehamilton This was my point of reference, super interview. #foss
https://youtu.be/gfwKnsHd9WM

Did you know that #LibreOffice has a built-in QR and barcode generator? Now you do 😉 https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/01/qrcode.html #foss #opensource

I've just landed a patch adding %N (i.e., a nanosecond conversion specification) to #date(1) on #FreeBSD.

Now you can run "date +%N" or "date -Ins" and enjoy the nanosecond precision of your dates.

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=eeb04a736cb9c07d191af886e25d5f198824658e

#osdev #foss

@aral @delroth I have no clue what political afair is happening in NixOS community.

Why can't technology be only about technology without politics?

Especially in #FOSS, which is a public good - everyone benefits from it.

Not yet updated to #LibreOffice 24.2? Here's an overview of some of the new features – with subtitles in 30 languages! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9pMn4cffs #foss #OpenSource

I've expanded the #FreeBSD handbook with a section about #zeroconf and #Avahi. (#mdns/#dnssd).

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/network-servers/#network-zeroconf

Feedback welcome!

#osdev #foss #opensource

Look! A #LibreOffice feature you may not know about 😉 When exporting a #PDF the "Hybrid PDF" option embeds the original file. Then anyone with a PDF reader can view the file – and LibreOffice users can edit it too: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/Writer/PDF_Hybrid#What_is_a_hybrid_PDF_file? #foss #OpenSource

Great list for any #Sysadmin 😎

#foss #opensource

https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin

Descent 3 has been made open source https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/descent-3-has-been-made-open-source/

#FOSS #OpenSource #Descent3

Back door xz vulnerability has been officially reverted for @fedora 40 https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/XZ-Gets-the-All-Clear #malare #XZBackdoor #Fedora #Ubuntu #ArchLinux #Linux #OpenSource #security #patch #Rawhide #FOSS

pawn shop

#unix_surrealism #technomage #penguin #linux #openbsd #runbsd #9front #plan9 #glenda #comic #fediart #mastoart #foss #art

News from #LibreOffice's Quality Assurance (#QA) and Development communities: in March, they resolved 429 bug reports. Learn more, and give them a hand: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/04/11/qa-dev-report-march-2024/ #foss #OpenSource

Love ❤️ #LibreOffice? Come and meet the worldwide community that makes it, at local events! For instance, we were recently at the InstallFest 2024 conference in Prague: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/10/insights-from-the-installfest-2024-conference-in-prague/ #foss #OpenSource

Lots happening in the #LibreOffice project! In March, we had updates to the software, new user guides, Document Freedom Day, reports from meetups and more: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/02/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-march-2024/ #foss #opensource

Another government is shifting away from proprietary software and going exclusively #FOSS. In this case, it's ostensibly all about money, and not some grand ideology. Still, it's good to see: https://www.bwtechzone.com/2024/04/botswana-goverment-ditches-microsoft.html?utm_source=MastodonAfrica

#Botswana #Africa

There are little things that we shouldn't take for granted like saying hello, good morning, please, and thank you for another awesome software release.

Then, it wouldn't hurt to add, how are you faring, and do you need any hardware or financial support.

#foss

Y mientras tanto en España, es una verdadera vergüenza ver las cantidades ingentes de dinero que se mueven en las partidas presupuestarias del gobierno y autonomías, destinadas a costear licencias y servicios de Microsoft.

Que cortitos de miras somos 😑

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/

#foss #libreoffice #microsoft #office365 #espana

I'm running #NetBSD (#ARM64 version) with #XFCE & #Mate on #QEMU (X11/xfce wouldn't run under #VMWare yesterday), and what I've seen is that ALL system prefs/admin tools from these DEs are not ported over to BSD. You only get the bare minimum of the DE. This shows how apart #Linux and #BSD have grown. Which means that if they care about the #desktop, they need to fork one of these DEs (maybe #LXDE or #LXQT would be best instead), and properly develop it for their own use case.

#foss #opensource

Every #Linux #FOSS Admin/user should know this secret.

So when are banks going to offer commission-free-microdonations to #FOSS projects in their services?

@chrism Is this a fundamental threat to the #FOSS #Linux project. What are the solutions? Do we even have a way, in principle, of scanning our distros for code that has no reason to be there? How does one vet maintainers and their work without turning into some sort of three-letter-agency monolith and cheesing off the 99.999% good eggs?

New blog post! "SCaLE 21x — Recovering from Data Loss Despite Not Having a Backup: A Postgres True Story"

I just came back from my first Southern California Linux Expo (@socallinuxexpo #SCaLE21x) where I shared a true story about a remarkable #PostgreSQL data recovery.

https://vyruss.org/blog/scale-21x-recovering-data-loss-despite-not-having-backup-postgres-true-story.html

#postgres #conference #talk #database #databases #OpenSource
#FOSS #FLOSS #DBA #DataRecovery #Backup #DisasterRecovery

SDL 3 has a first preview release out with HDR and Vulkan for the 2D rendering API https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/sdl-3-has-a-first-preview-release-out-with-hdr-and-vulkan-for-the-2d-rendering-api/

#SDL #OpenSource #FOSS #GameDev

3 serious forks of #Redis to watch:

#KeyDB

Mutli-threaded fork of Redis based on Redis 6.
BSD 3 Clause license.
Owned by Snapchat.
https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB

#Redict

Recent fork by one person based on the last open source version of Redis 7.2.4.
On Codeberg.
LGPL 3.0 license.
https://codeberg.org/redict/redict

PlaceholderKV (searching for name)

Started by former Redis contributor(s) and AWS employees.
BSD 3 Clause license.
https://github.com/placeholderkv/placeholderkv

Boosts appreciated 🙏

#opensource #oss #foss #gpl

For those looking for a #Redis alternative, there's #Redict. #LGPL #FOSS #FLOSS

https://redict.io/posts/2024-03-22-redict-is-an-independent-fork/

@BrideOfLinux Thanks for that fascinating interview about #freesoftware ( #foss ). The message is how precarious our rights are when we live our lives using computing and data services.

#digiKam has a new release. #PhotoEditing #PhotoManagement #FOSS #FLOSS

https://www.digikam.org/news/2024-03-17-8.3.0_release_announcement/

#TIL about #GNU #Taler, thanks to a post on a Lemmy instance about a new release. #GnuTaler #FOSS #FLOSS #DigitalPayments #DigitalPaymentSystem

https://taler.net/en/features.html

Lemmy post: https://blendit.bsd.cafe/post/91698

The best way to show someone how great modern Linux has gotten is to have them set up a new computer dual booting Windows and Linux. I’m helping onboard some colleagues with new laptops and the only complaints are with Windows, not Endless OS. 😝

#Linux #GNOME #EndlessOS #Windows #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

'In an ancient temple in the depths of the acidic jungle slumbers an antediluvian machine. Run it.'

- rite of passage

#technomage #netbsd #unix_surrealism #daemon #comic #fediart #mastoart #art #foss

@michaelgalassi @dexter It is definitely the right way. Sometimes, when the patch is larger and requires more code review, then it is good to post it to https://reviews.freebsd.org/ along opening a Problem Report on https://bugs.freebsd.org/. In other words, #Bugzilla is the source of truth. #Phabricator is just an extra service #FreeBSD uses for code review.

#foss #opensource

#introduction - Hello. I just moved over from mastodon.social. I first installed Linux in 1999 (I think) so this seems like a good home for me :) By day I am a sales engineer for complex websites, mostly Drupal and WordPress. When not working I prefer to be in the woods in my standup teardrop camper. I'm also likely to post about #hiking, #saintsfc, #redsox, #FOSS, #Purdue, #camping #beer

'magnetic fields'

boost if you like your diskettes organic

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #fediart #mastoart #art #recursion #foss #diskette #floppy #runbsd

'Time, Mage?'

#technomage #fossangel #unix_surrealism #puffy #comic #fediart #mastoart #art #runbsd #linux #foss #time

Help shine the light on #OpenSource in this week's #FollowFriday, with a boost and follows!

- Droidian @droidian
A GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian for mobile devices.
- BastilleBSD @BastilleBSD
A system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.
- @VerneMQ
MQTT message broker.
- Drupal @drupal
A free, open, modular CMS written in PHP.

#ff #oss #foss #floss #FreeSoftware

The future has arrive - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/the-future-has-arrive-kde-plasma-6-desktop-released/

#KDE #Linux #FOSS

'Straight out of METACITY'

ft. #fosschild

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #art #fediart #mastoart #foss

#fosstodon #meshtastic #messaging #foss #lorawan #lora #tdeck
Any interest in forming a fosstodon meshtastic channel in meshtastic? The public channel "LongFast" is very full. One can make a channel and share its ID via one-to-one messages in this fosstodon instance and achieve a sort of fosstodon mirror sms like chat room... might help grow the number of nodes and be more fun then.

'I hate making deliveries to that one cave in the desert so much...'

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #fediart #mastoart #art #runbsd #linux #9front #rat #foss

We need more programs like this all over this country (USA), not only to promote #FOSS, but also to keep perfectly working computers from adding more e-waste to the world needlessly. #KDE #FLOSS @kde

https://eu.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2024/02/22/rhode-island-teens-are-fixing-junked-computers-and-learning-valuable-tech-skills/72340312007/

Cross-platform development library SDL3 gets a Vulkan Renderer and camera API https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/cross-platform-development-library-sdl3-gets-a-vulkan-renderer-and-camera-api/

#GameDev #FOSS #OpenSource #Vulkan #SDL

@slightlyoff @brucelawson @benfrancis The video does not say that Apple 🍏 appears to have stopped web apps in 'Europe' only. So #EU regulation has made the situation also worse. I fail to see how using ever deeper layers of tax-free #bureauprats to make life fair & optimal can help the citizen. What we need is competition, not free-loaders appealing to complex 'law'. #foss solutions on hardware made in Europe is what is needed. Let Apple do what it wants & use the free market to work its magic.

#technomage in "TECHNO-MAGE"

The chronologically very first issue of the comic series, drafted many years ago, finally released!

Read the whole thing here:

https://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/techno-mage

or see this thread.

(consider supporting my work, thank you: https://analognowhere.com/support )

#unix_surrealism #comic #openbsd #runbsd #plan9 #9front #fediart #mastoart #linux #foss

@Mieps als erstes, dass du es über @fdroidorg installieren kannst und nicht von Google getrakt wirst. Des weiteren hat es einen @torproject Support und ist voll #FOSS so wie lokale Encryption, ect.

New blog post! "FOSSCOMM 2023 Heraklion — How #PostgreSQL can help you enforce best practices"

A few months back I gave a talk at #FOSSCOMM 2023 in Heraklion, Greece — and the footage has just been found! https://vyruss.org/blog/fosscomm-2023-how-postgresql-helps-you-enforce-best-pratices.html

#postgres #conference #talk #database #databases #openSource #FOSS #FLOSS #DBA

Wow "We are thrilled to inform you that your talk submission for DORS/CLUC 2024 has been accepted!" So I guess #Zagreb here I come!

#foss

The funniest take on this whole #optin fedi bridge nonsense is that all the "pro-bridge" people are supposedly tech bros and that said "bros" are not understanding the tech.

I can't imagine a group of devs further removed from SV values than #foss devs building fedi infra for absolutely no pay.

#FOSDEM community, if you want to continue with the fun, I am organizing an event about #FOSS in #Bulgaria. Please follow @howcamp for more. I hope I can buy you a few beers there. Boosts will be appreciated, boots not so much ;)